· Private foundation
The Ross Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULSA TOUGH INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| OSU | $10,000 |
| THE ROCK HOUSE CHURCH | $7,500 |
| PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| STROUD PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| CHOCTAW-NICOMA PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY SOUTH | $2,500 |
| NEO A&M | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TTTulsa ToughInc4× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +358%
The University of Tulsa2× · 2017–2018 · $32k · revenue +8%- TGTULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- R6ROUTE 66 ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2017 · $73k
- TPTULSA POLICE HEROES FUNDone grant, 2019 · $25k
- AANONYMOUSone grant, 2021 · $13k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Foundation for Tulsa Schools was established to build a stronger community through the support of Tulsa Public Schools.
Providing, maintaining and issuing scholarships to eligible nominees or applicants for admission to college or for contributions to regularly maintained scholarship funds of other federal tax exempt colleges and universities with an…
The operation of a public charter school in the tulsa area with the mission to equip all scholars with the academic skills, content knowledge, and ethical character required for college graduation and life success.
The mission of tsas middle and high school is to provide students a multi-strand liberal arts education in a safe, supportive, individualized and challenging school environment through a college preparatory curriculum.
Inspired by a culture of creativity, Oklahoma City University fosters an immersive, personalized experience that welcomes and prepares students to pursue boundless opportunities.
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
Organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, specifically for the sole benefit of Tulsa Press Club Benevolent Association, Inc. to aid in carrying out the mission to promote the highest standards of journalism and to…
To prepare students for college through a rigorous arts infused program.
Kipp tulsa prepares students from educationally under-served neighborhoods in tulsa, ok with the academic, character and life skills necessary for success in college and the competitive world beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Parent Child Ctr of Tulsa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Tulsa ToughInc ↗
- Who funds BOOKER T WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rogers State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT CHILD CTR OF TULSA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA GLOBAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds Global Gardens Incorporated ↗
- Who funds The Pencil Box Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation · Mervin Bovaird Foundation · The Hardesty Family Foundation Inc · One Gas Foundation Inc · Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation · Stuart Family Foundation · Hille Family Charitable Foundation · Saint Francis Hospital Inc · The Gelvin Foundation · The Sharna and Irvin Frank Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ross Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Rogers State University Foundation — 20% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Global Gardens Incorporated — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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